> Nominally you're supposed to apply for N jobs per week, go to interviews, do training or whatever according to a plan you make with a case worker. In many co

> Nominally you're supposed to apply for N jobs per week, go to interviews, do training or whatever according to a plan you make with a case worker. In many countries that is a requirement of unemployment, not the social system. In ones where you fall out of unemployment into the social system they have often classified you as unable to work. On the topic in general, I would point out that it is usually frowned upon to do anything that is valuable economic work for free while needing to rely on social insurances. One is in essence undercutting paid positions for other workers if one builds usable Enterprise Software, does a data entry internship, etc. I would recommend working on no-commercial-potential GNU oriented Software. (Accidentally getting small contracts can also end up being a hassle/liability in some benefit systems.)